Summary
Name:
Doreen BairdYears Active:
1958Status:
ReleasedClass:
MurdererVictims:
1Method:
StrangulationNationality:
United KingdomSummary: Murderer
Name:
Doreen BairdStatus:
ReleasedVictims:
1Method:
StrangulationNationality:
United KingdomYears Active:
1958Date Convicted:
November 27, 1958Doreen Baird was born in 1944. She was associated with Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England.
By 1958 she was fourteen years old and was a schoolgirl. She also worked as a babysitter.
Medical reports later described her as emotionally immature and of low intellect.
Doreen Baird was a 14-year-old schoolgirl born in 1944. On July 14, 1958, in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, she was babysitting five children. One of them was sixteen-month-old June Croft, who was crying more than the others.
Baird tied a scarf around the child's neck to try to stop the crying. The child died of strangulation. Police arrested Baird the same day.
At her trial at Sheffield Assizes she pleaded diminished responsibility. Medical evidence described her as emotionally immature and of low intellect. On November 27, 1958, she was found guilty of manslaughter and sent to an approved school.
